DESDEMONACome, how wouldst thou praise me? IAGO I am about it; but indeed my invention Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frieze; It plucks out brains and all: but my Muse labours, And thus she is deliver'd. If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it. DESDEMONA Well praised! How if she be black and witty? IAGO If she be black, and thereto have a wit, She'll find a white that shall her blackness fit. DESDEMONA Worse and worse. EMILIA How if fair and foolish? IAGO She never yet was foolish that was fair; For even her folly help'd her to an heir. DESDEMONA These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' the alehouse. What miserable praise hast thou for her that's foul and foolish? IAGO There's none so foul and foolish thereunto, But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do. . William Shakespeare
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This is another poem by Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream." This is a very pretty and funny poem about love and marriage. King Oberon has requested the fairies to find him a wife. The fairies include in their search for a wife, his daughters, Titania and Euphamistra, who are both beautiful and foolish. They fall in love with the same man, Bottom the weaver.

When they see that their desire for this man cannot be fulfilled, they decide to trick him into marrying one of them. They appear to him as two women but when he tries to kiss them, he realizes that they are indeed male.

Source: Othello

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